Career
Ueda made his first-team debut for Kashima Antlers in the J. League Cup on 23 March 2013 against F.C. Tokyo in which he started and played the whole 90 minutes as Kashima lost the match 4–2. Ueda was a part of the Japan U17 side that participated in the 2011 Fédération internationale de football association U-17 World Cup in which he started in all of Japan"s five fixtures during the tournament as the team made it all the way to the quarter-finals. After being part of 2015 AFC Asian Cup squad with Javier Aguirre in place of Atsuto Uchida (injured), on 7 May 2015 Japan"s coach Vahid Halilhodžić called him for a two-days training camp.